Indebtitude

Indebtitude was a practice of Vestal which legalized enslavement of people on the basis of debts unpaid. These debts were accured as a result of the Vestali Integration Programme, which gave settling refugees border settlements in exchange for defending the Vestali from Uzbari Horse-Lords. When the integration programme turned towards cultural assimilation of other humans, most debts were eliminated with the onset of citizenship. Indebtitude came into regular usage with the decline of the Horse-Lord raids, which turned the prominence of minority settlements into a problem rather than a solution. Indebtitude still remains in the Vestali lawbooks, though it has become less targeted towards the nation's minorities, and harms all poor folk equally, without prejudice.